WD TV live & Mac OS Extended (Journaled) hard drive?

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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I recently just bought a iMac, I have alot of files videos that is bigger than 4GB. If I format the hard drive into Mac OS Exteneded (Journaled). Will the WD TV Live works with it? I just bought the hard drive. It is 3TB. Is there any fireware that is required for the wd TV Live to read 3TB Mac OS Exteneded (Journaled).

I know there are other post in here, but I just don’t really understand it.

Edited: I have the WD TV Live and not the Live Plus.

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There is some WDTV Mac Discussion here…

Quote: KevinC867

The WDTV definitely does support Mac OS Extended (HFS+) drives. Journaled HFS+ formatting is also OK, but the WDTV does not provide the “Media Library” features with a journaled drive.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=795752

The User Manual confirms HFS+ support

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Thank you very much for pointing that out.

“but the WDTV does not provide the “Media Library” features with a journaled drive.”

does that include the Mac OS Extended (Jounaled). Or just the Jounaled? are they different?

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Journaling at all on HFS is not supported by the WD.

The WD will consider the volume “Read-Only” if journaling is enabled.